CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

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Page 122The single surviving fragment of this poem is published in the volume of Hesiod's
works in the Loeb Classical Library. Cerdo. The wife of Phoroneus, king of Argos.
Though Cerdo's tomb was shown near that of her husband at Argos, little else ...

Page 233Hesiod calls Eris the mother of a long list of personified abstractions as
disagreeable as herself. [Hesiod, Works and ... or Cupid by the Romans.
Acmrding to Hesiod's Theogony [120-122, 201], Eros existed almost from the
beginning of time, ...

Page 255One of them, called simply Charis (Grace) by Homer in the Iliad and named
Aglaea by Hesiod, was said by these early ... The Graces, who were usually three
after Hesiod's account, were favorite subjects in art, often being shown nude and
...